Germany Sets New Six-Month Startup Record
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Re: Germany Sets New Six-Month Startup Record
#2They had one?
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#3Maybe more related to the possibility of boot strapping with random AI startups. German investors are pretty conservative.
Re: Germany Sets New Six-Month Startup Record
#4That's not even 1,5% of all companies founded annually.
Re: Germany Sets New Six-Month Startup Record
#5Maybe more related to the possibility of boot strapping with random AI startups. German investors are pretty conservative.
No shit man. Their government high tech (!) VC fund rejected a high tech proposal from me (Medical devices), instead financed things like: https://www.mymuesli.com/
Re: Germany Sets New Six-Month Startup Record
#6Maybe more related to the possibility of boot strapping with random AI startups. German investors are pretty conservative.
No shit man. Their government high tech (!) VC fund rejected a high tech proposal from me (Medical devices), instead financed things like: https://www.mymuesli.com/
Pretty much.
In Germany, innovation is defined and funded by grant agencies. The only projects that are deemed innovative are those that look like existing projects that are known to be innovative.
Re: Germany Sets New Six-Month Startup Record
#7Maybe more related to the possibility of boot strapping with random AI startups. German investors are pretty conservative.
No shit man. Their government high tech (!) VC fund rejected a high tech proposal from me (Medical devices), instead financed things like: https://www.mymuesli.com/
HTGF?
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
No shit man. Their government high tech (!) VC fund rejected a high tech proposal from me (Medical devices), instead financed things like: https://www.mymuesli.com/
HTGF?
Yes. I actually also interviewed once for a job there.
Not the sharpest minds. More bureaucratic than entrepreneurial. At the time, none of the C-suite had ever run their own company. Zero international experience. Complete mediocrity.
Re: Germany Sets New Six-Month Startup Record
#9The bootstrapping-without-VC point tracks with what I keep hearing from people building small AI-adjacent tools on their own. A few have told me directly they never considered raising – not because they couldn't, but because the traction they needed was small enough that a few months of paying customers did the job faster than a pitch deck would have.
That might also explain part of the discrepancy in this thread: a count like this only captures what registers as a "startup" in the first place. If AI is mostly lowering the cost of getting to a working, revenue-generating product solo, a meaningful chunk of that activity may never show up in a founder database – it just looks like someone quietly running a small profitable thing.
Curious whether anyone here started something in Germany this year without going near a grant or VC process – and if so, whether that was deliberate or just never came up.
Re: Germany Sets New Six-Month Startup Record
#10Being Germany, that means it only takes six months to properly register a startup? :)